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Sunday, August 14, 2016

2010 Hugo Award Longlist

Among the revelations that come with the longlist every year is the fact that many authors seem to have had better years in the balloting than one would expect simply looking at the finalists. Robert Charles Wilson, for example, had one work place in the Best Novel finalists, but had two more show up on the longlist in the Best Novelette category. Rachel Swirsky had one story reach the finalists in the Best Novelette category, and another made the longlist. Kristine Kathryn Rusch had two stories appear on the Best Novella longlist, and Mary Robinette Kowal also had two longlisted stories: One in Best Novelette and one in Best Short Story. Mike Resnick had one story make it to the finalists, and three more appear on the longlist.

Resnick's longlisted stories contain a moderately interesting conundrum. Two of the stories that appear here were cowritten by him with his frequent collaborator Lezli Robyn, who was also nominated for the Campbell Award. The interesting thing is that in 2010, Robyn's most prominent stories were the ones she had cowritten with Resnick. The problem this poses is that it is difficult to separate Robyn's contribution from Resnick's for the purpose of voting on the Campbell Award. Apparently some voters felt comfortable doing so, as Robyn ended up doing reasonably well in the voting, placing second behind Seanan McGuire in the first pass through (although she ended up fourth overall), but how they sorted this question out remains a mystery.

Finalists:Boneshaker by Cherie PriestThe City & the City by China Mieville [winner]Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles WilsonPalimpsest by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi [winner]WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

Longlisted Nominees:Finch by Jeff VanderMeerGalileo's Dream by Kim Stanley RobinsonLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldLifecode by Jo WaltonMakers by Cory DoctorowThe Price of Spring by Daniel AbrahamThe Sunless Countries by Karl SchroederThis Is Not a Game by Walter Jon WilliamsUnseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Finalists:Act One by Nancy KressThe God Engines by John ScalziPalimpsest by Charles Stross[winner]Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James MorrowVishnu at the Cat Circus by Ian McDonaldThe Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker

Longlisted Nominees:Booklife by Jeff VanderMeerCheek by Jowl by Ursula K. Le GuinImagination/Space by Gwyneth JonesImaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist by James GurneyOther Spaces, Other Times by Robert SilverbergPowers: Secret Histories by John BerlyneScience Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the 20th Century by Jane FrankThe Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Osisceray Ronay, Jr.Spectrum 16 by by Arnie Fenner and Cathy FennerStarcombing by David Langford

Grandville by Bryan TalbotIgnition City by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Locke & Key: Head Games by Joe Hill and Gabriel RodriguezOoku by Fumi YoshinagaThe Order of the Stick: Don't Split the Party by Rich BurlewPluto by Naoki UrasawaSchlock Mercenary: The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance by Howard TaylerScott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'MalleyStar Trek: Countdown by Mike Johnson, Tim Jones, and David MessinaTales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun TanThe Umbrella Academy: Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel BáThe Unwritten by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

Longlisted Nominees:Caprica: PilotCoralineDoctor Who: The End of TimeFantastic Mr. FoxHarry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceThe Imaginarium of Doctor ParnassusLet the Right One InPonyoSherlock HolmesTorchwood: Children of EarthWatchmenWhere the Wild Things Are

Finalists:Doctor Who: The Next DoctorDoctor Who: The Planet of the DeadDoctor Who: The Waters of Mars[winner]Dollhouse: Epitaph 1FlashForward: No More Good Days

Longlisted Nominees:Battlestar Galactica: DaybreakChuck: Chuck Versus the RingDecisionsDollhouse: The AtticDollhouse: BelongingFlashForward: The GiftLost: LaFleurLost: The Incident 1 & 2Partly CloudyStargate: Universe: LightStargate: Universe: TimeTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Born to RunWallace and Gromit in a Matter of Loaf and Death

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